Hebrews 6:5
Good News Translation
they knew from experience that God's word is good, and they had felt the powers of the coming age.

New Revised Standard Version
and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

New American Bible
and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come,

tasted.

Matthew 13:20,21 And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy. . . .

Mark 4:16,17 And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. . . .

Mark 6:20 For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him willingly.

Luke 8:13 Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away.

1 Peter 2:3 If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

2 Peter 2:20 For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former.

the powers.

Hebrews 2:5 For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

Context
A Call to Maturity
4For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come, 6And are fallen away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God and making him a mockery.…
Cross References
Psalm 34:8
O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

Matthew 12:32
And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to come.

Ephesians 6:17
And take unto you the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).

Hebrews 2:5
For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God: that from invisible things visible things might be made.

1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.

1 Peter 2:3
If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

Hebrews 6:4
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